Traduction de «Mesures qui affectent le commerce des services » (Français → Anglais) :

However, in the meantime, the Commission is pursuing discussions in the WTO how to address trade distortions arising from subsidies affecting trade in services, as mandated by Article XV of the General Agreement on Trade in Services which is binding on China.

11. Notes that the agreement on services (GATS) permitted substantial progress towards liberalisation, particularly with regard to financial services and telecommunications; is convinced that trade barriers should be reduced in other areas without affecting consumer protection and public policy objectives in health care, education and culture; stresses that the free provision of services must not prevent a WTO member from applying measures to regulate the ent ...[+++]ry of natural persons into, or their temporary stay in, its territory;

Whereas the freedom to provide services entails as a corollary the right of entry into and residence on the territory of the Member State in which the service is provided; whereas the "EU service provision card”, to be issued by the Member State in which the service provider is established, is intended to remove the legal uncertainties associated with the provision of cross-border services and thus facilitate the free movement of services ; whereas, in the case of an intention to provide cross-border services, the service provider should therefore be entitled to apply for an EU service provision card in the Member State in which he is ...[+++]established ; whereas this Directive, similarly, does not affect the undertakings of the Community and its Member States, given in the context of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS); whereas the EU service provision card should include only the data required under Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data;

i) hold an annual review of the implementation of the strategy, based on a comprehensive report from the Commission on the operation of the strategy, and subsequently to report to the Council; ii) examine regular reports from the Commission providing an overview and analysis of barriers affecting trade with third countries, specifically Ukraine, Mashraq/Maghreb countries, South Africa and a range of East Asian countries, along with the annual reports on the US and Japan, and agree appropriate actions; iii) examine reports on speci ...[+++]fic barriers and on types of barrier (covering trade facilitation, intellectual property rights, standards and certification, trade related investment measures, government procurement and sanitary and phytosanitary measures) and agree appropriate actions so as to inform wider EU trade policy and contribute to the development of the EU’s position on future multilateral negotiations in particular.

Adopting the joint declaration in the Final Act will make it possible to conclude, in parallel with the negotiations on trade in goods, negotiations on measures designed to liberalize trade in services, capital movements and payments and measures relating to intellectual property.

It also envisages the phasing-out of quantitative restrictions (1) "Negotiations shall aim at the fullest liberalization of trade in tropical products, including in their processed and semi-processed forms and shall cover both tariff and all non-tariff measures affecting trade in these products.